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Talks

Carrie welcomes the opportunity to share her passion for ‘greener living’ through talks in the community. She speaks on a variety of topics including climate change, recycling, inspirational upcycling, and her favourite charity – the Purple Community Fund - to name a few.

She is keen to engage and share her climate change knowledge. Much of this was gained in March 2016 when Carrie went to Manila, in the Philippines, to train with Al Gore (the former US Vice President), who lead a three day training programme for climate change scientists and climate change communicators. There were over 700 other passionate environmental communicators from 33 different countries on the programme and there are more than 10,000 Climate Reality Leaders now trained worldwide.

Carrie Cort, a multi award winning environmental communicator, is available to share Al Gore’s Climate Reality presentation with the people of Sussex and the surrounding counties. The aim of the presentation is to break down the complex terms of science and policy into the language of everyday life, so that people everywhere can understand how climate change directly affects them. They can then join the millions of people worldwide in making changes to their everyday lives which will make a real difference. There is information about the negative effects humans are having on the planet which sustains us, but Carrie quickly adds “the presentation also includes lots of statistics, evidence and reasons to be cheerful”.

We offer talks for groups, businesses and schools and we can attend your event to give a presentation. Subjects include:

Philippine Community Fund (now known as the Purple Community Fund) and life on a dumpsite in Manila – 1 hour talk. Learn more here. For this talk we would like to bring the PCF merchandise to sell afterwards – to raise vital funds.

”Thank you so much for delivering this evenings Al Gore Climate Reality presentation. I am at home with a big grin on my face at the positive energy of the event – I think I managed to speak to everyone afterwards and the feedback was good. The slides were so powerful and I can see how easy it would be to fill 4 hours!”

Annie Brown- Adur Green Party

“Thank you for a most interesting Climate Reality talk, I learnt a huge amount and I’ve been speaking to family and friends about small changes they can make, such as who they bank with, meat free Mondays, etc. Thanks to you and Jenny for a great talk”.

Cath Brown, Transition Town Worthing

“Just a quick note to thank you for giving the Climate Reality Talk last night. It really was one of the best Transition Chichester evenings we’ve had for a while – and great to see so many people engaging with the topic. Good luck with all your ventures. I’m sure we’ll be working together again some time soon”.

Julia Sanders, Trustee for Transition Chichester

“Just to let you know that a lady came into our Your Community Energy Shop in Worthing yesterday for training as an energy shop adviser because she had been to your presentation on Sept 11th and signed a ‘pledge to the planet’. She wanted you to know she has honoured that pledge by changing energy supplier to a renewable one and is now learning to help others do the same”.